Thursday, February 9. 2012

Here is a quick tour of some of the work we saw going on in the Wood Shop yesterday. You may notice the recurring theme of WINDOWS - good work in the shop during the winter, and we never seem to run out of them.

Fitting

John Faulhaber has been under the weather lately but we welcomed him back and promptly put him to work on fitting the frames for the new windows for Illinois Central 3996.

Beading

Buzz Morisette continued making new windows for Santa Fe 1400 caboose. Here he has manufactured small quarter round to be used in holding the glazing, and is painting them.

Odd Design

Victor Humphreys (pictured) and I worked to resolve the odd angles and many parts for new windows on the front of the cab for our Norfolk & Western 2050 locomotive. These are really different and seemingly no parallel edges. Tough work when there are only 'shards' of an incomplete original to work from.

Roger Kramer cleaned and primed several pieces of hardware destined for our Pullman FLOYD RIVER. I believe this car has examples of open section berths, once so common, and found in a few of the cars in our collection

Bushings

Here are four new bushings machined to order, here resting in the midst of their heat treatment. A total of six new were made today. Earlier in the week Gerry Dettloff did some fitting and grinding to mate the new pedestal liners to the truck frames.

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